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Word: scoring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square Metropolitan Opera House. High above Valhalla, craning for an occasional amused glance at the tiny gods on stage below, painters swashed away at new scenery of an English fishing village. In rehearsal rooms, catacombed through the six-story building, singers agonized over the strange notes of a new score. On a rooftop stage, conductors and stage directors exhorted another cast fully as large and glamorous as the one before the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Once in rehearsal, when the orchestra stumbled on some of Britten's rocky rhythms, Conductor Cooper slapped his score with his baton, cried out: "No, no, it is not wrong. I am like you, gentlemen. At first I thought it was wrong . . . you will change your minds." Most already had. Muttered one violinist, tapping his temple: "It's good, it's very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Rolling up its highest point total of the season, the Crimson jayvee basketball forces crushed Leicester Junior College under a 90 to 37 score last night on the Indoor Athletic Building court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Five Blasts Leicester By 90-37 on Blockhouse Floor | 2/14/1948 | See Source »

...Puritans, who held a one-point advantage at halftime, waited until the last five minutes to break the deadlock. Jack Richards and Jim Powell then sank a total of six points to decide the match. Close guarding accounted for the low score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Five Stops Eliot To Wrest Intramural Lead | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Lowell House matched Leverett basket for basket during the first half, but slowly pulled ahead in the second canto to win 46 to 36. Score at mid-time was 19-18, which the Bellboys had little difficulty building up after intermission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Five Stops Eliot To Wrest Intramural Lead | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

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